Erika Dreifus

Most Fridays the Practicing Writing blog shares writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. But it’s been an excruciating week for so many of us. And frankly, I’ve paid next-to-no attention to garden-variety news from the writing and publishing spheres.

On Wednesday, however, I received an email from Facing History and Ourselves, a Boston-based global nonprofit organization that I’ve admired for many years. The email introduced a “mini-lesson” titled “Processing Attacks in Israel and the Outbreak of War in the Region.”

The resource isn’t perfect. (What resource is?) But one of its segments impressed me as something that, though intended for educators and students, could be clarifying for writers as well, in our work and in the rest of our lives. It’s a section titled “Avoiding Antisemitic and Islamophobic Tropes in Discussing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”

• In which Rebecca Makkai explains “Actual Literary Etiquette.”
• An anonymous guest post on Lit Mag News argues: “Submission fees are wrong.”
• ICYMI (I did): The Authors Guild recently offered another “Business Bootcamp for Writers”: “Media Training for Authors, Part I: Producing Videos and Giving Interviews.”
• “How to Free Your Writing with Free Writing” (Korrina Duffy for Nieman Storyboard).
• And of course, there’s a new set of Jewish-lit links posted over on the My Machberet blog.

Wishing everyone a good weekend.